Origin of the name BARBAROS.
Etymology of the
name BARBAROS.
Meaning of the baby name BARBAROS.

BARBAROS (Βάρβαρος). Greek
name meaning "stranger."

Horne Tooke derives it from the root
bar (strong), and thinks it a repetition of the savage people's own
reduplicated bar-bar (very strong); but it is far more probably an
imitation of the incomprehensible speech of the strangers; as, in fact,
the Greeks seem rather to have applied it first to the polished Asiatic,
who would have given them less the idea of strength than the Scyth or the
Goth, to whose language bar belonged in the sense of force or
opposition. It is curious to observe how, in modern languages, the
progeny of the Latin barbarus vary between the sense of wild
cruelty and mere rude ignorance, or ill-adapted splendour. (History
of Christian Names, Yonge, 1884)

BARBARIAN (Gr. barbaros),
among the Greeks, as early as the time of Homer, signified one who could
not speak the Greek language; and this restricted signification was not
wholly obsolete even in the age of Plato, for the latter divides the
entire human race into Hellenes and Barbaroi. The
origin of the word is unknown, if it be not artificially formed, on the
principle of imitation, to represent a meaningless babble of sound, such
as the Greeks conceived all foreign languages to be. It first
began to acquire its secondary and invidious signification at the period
of the Persian wars. The Greeks, who always exhibited a proud
consciousness of their superior intellect and privileges, employed the
term to designate the character of their enemies. It then meant
whatever was opposed to Greek civilization, freedom, or intelligence;
but it could not yet have attained the degraded sense in which it is now
used, for the Romans in the time of Plautus accepted the appellation,
and called themselves Barbaroi. Subsequently, when Rome, under
Augustus, became the mistress of the world, the word was applied to all
the Germanic and Scythian tribes with whom she came into contact.
In modern times, it signifies savage, uncivilized, or ignorant. (Chambers's
Encyclopedia, v.1, 1888)